

Other areas of the economy include tertiary education, construction and real estate, tourism, and manufacturing. Its economy is based on public sector services, finance industry, logistics, and trade. The city is a commercial hub while its port is a trading and communication point between Italy and Western Europe. As of 2011, the city had a population of approximately 260,308. Patrasīuilt on the foothills of Mount Panachaikon, Patras is the 3rd largest city and the regional capital of Western Greece. The city economy accounts for 8.9% of the total economy of the country. The city GDP by 2011 was €18.293 billion with per capita income of €15,900. The Thessaloniki port is one of the largest ports in the world and in 2010, the port served more than 15.8 million tons of products. The economy is based on services like trade, education and healthcare, real estate, transport, communications and storing, financial institutions, public administration, and hospitality. The port of Thessaloniki serves both Greece and the European hinterland. The city has the second-largest economy, transportation, industrial, commercial and political centers in the country. As of 2011, the population of the city was 1,084,001. Thessaloniki is the second-largest city and the capital of Macedonia, Greece. Athens has a population of 3,753,783 as of 2011. The economy of Athens prospers on shipping, tourism, commerce, media, education, culture, international trade and arts, and entertainment. The UBS study of 2015 ranked Athens as the 29th richest and 67th most expensive city in the world. Today, Athens is the largest cosmopolitan metropolis of Greece and serves as an economic, industrial, financial, maritime, culture, and political center of the country. The city development and diversified economy helped it grow to the birthplace of democracy and also the cradle of western civilization. It developed as a port of Piraeus, a center for arts, and as a scholarly center of the old world.

The town’s history dates back to the 11th and 7th millennia BC. AthensĪthens, the capital city of Greece, is also the largest city in the country. Besides, the strategic location of the country along the Balkan Peninsula facilitated the development of ports, trading centers, and shipping docks. The cities flourished to make Greece the cradle of Western civilization.

The city’s history dates back to several centuries and cultures the cities were influenced by the Roman Empire and the Turkish Empire before independence. The cities in Greece bear monuments belonging to the Jewish, Roman, Ottoman, and Byzantine settlement. Athens is also the capital of Greece and has the most developed economy in the country. Almost three-and-a-half millennium old, the city of Athens is the largest city in Greece today.
